Question

in this site

It is very strange.

        DateTime a = DateTime.Parse("5/26/2011");
        Response.Write(a.ToShortDateString());

this code in localhost work fine.

But but but

on host say error:

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

in this site

Answer 1

You need to use DateTime.ParseExact(), it will allow you to specify your culture and format.

Here’s an example using InvariantCulture:

DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact("5/26/2011", 
                                        "MM/dd/yyyy", 
                                        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

And here’s one that uses en-US specifically:

DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact("5/26/2011", 
                                     "MM/dd/yyyy", 
                                     CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"));

Take a look at the MSDN docs.